Neural mechanisms of social attention
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Social attention is conveyed primarily by gaze, but also by head and body orientation. These cues not only signal a seen agent's direction of attention but are also used to infer their current goals and intentions. Here, we review recent research showing that different gaze, head and body orientations are represented by distinct neural mechanisms, and show that a statistical summary of recent neuroimaging studies reveals a widespread neural network for gaze processing. We discuss how this network subserves visual analysis of social attention cues, and imitative attention shifts and mental state attributions from these cues. We also review new research indicating that the posterior superior temporal sulcus region responds to the inferred intentionality of social cues, and consider the development of the gaze perception system.
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Posterior MTG/STS region has been proposed to encode intentions of an agent's actions and to be associated more broadly with empathy, mentalizing, and theory of mind.
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- Authors
- Nummenmaa, L., & Calder, A. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Turku (FI)
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Nummenmaa, Lauri
- ORCID
- Nummenmaa, Lauri
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-03
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 135-143
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1997326154
- Cited by
- 428
- References
- 100
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 34 · 2012: 28
- FWCI
- 2.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Academy of Finland
- Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- social attention, gaze processing, head orientation, body orientation, posterior superior temporal sulcus, mental state attribution, social cognition
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Attention, Brain, Cues, Facial Expression, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nerve Net, Orientation, Social Perception, Temporal Lobe, Visual Perception
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